John Trapp on John 5:35

Verſe 35. Nazianz. He was a burning, &c.] Burning in himſelf, and ſhining to others: or, as it was ſaid of Baſil, thundering in his doctrine, Acts and Monuments. Fol. 1781. and lightning in his life. And of Rogers and Bradford, that it was hard to ſay, whether there were more force of eloquence and utterance in preaching, or more holineſſe of life and converſation to be found in them.

For a ſeaſon to rejoyce] But he ſoon grew ſtale to them; ſo that they made no more reckoning of him, [non-Latin text not transcribed], to dance a galliard. It was a formall joy, or jollity rather. Joh. Manl loc. com. 698. then of a reed ſhaken with the winde, Matth. 11.7. Principes favebant Luthero, ſed jam it erum videtis ingratitudinem mundi erga miniſtros, &c. ſaid good Melancthon, in the year of Grace, 1559.